Plant Development How does plant development differ from animal development? Where do the various parts of a plant come from?
= hemicellulose Plant Cell Wall
Cellulose microfibrils in cell wall Microtubules beneath plasma membrane
Cellulose microfibril synthesis
Cellulose microfibrils of primary cell wall Plant cell expansion: Loosen wall in a particular dimension Drive expansion with turgor pressure
Secondary walls have more layers of polysaccharides, lignin cross-linking. A thicker wall cannot stretch. Zhong and Ye (2007) Current Opinion in Plant Biology 10:
Arabidopsis embryo development inside the seed
Embryo fate map
Vegetative Shoot apical meristem (SAM)
Vegetative shoot apical meristem (SAM)
Bushy mutants of pea Morris et al. (2001) Plant Physiology 126:
Umehara et al. (2008) Nature 455, Mutants define the strigolactone biosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis, pea, and rice Synthesis Response
Umehara et al. (2008) Nature 455, GR24 inhibits bud outgrowth in strigolactone-deficient mutants Rice Arabidopsis
Model for mechanism of apical dominance Shoot apical meristem, leaf primordia Root, Stem Lateral bud Strigolactone transport Auxin transport Auxin transport (PIN proteins) Strigolactone inhibits transport from lateral bud Bud grows if it can export auxin
Root meristem
Confocal microscope image of Arabidopsis root
Cyclin::GFP
Which cells are the stem cells?
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0d 1d 3d 5d Effect of ablation of quiescent center (QC) on tissue- specific marker gene expression (from Sabatini et al., 1999, Cell 99: ) The Quiescent Center is the stem cell niche
Whole embryos can self-organize from somatic cells
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Regulatory function of Rb protein
Wild type Rb-related RNAi silenced Silencing Rb-related gene results in extra stem cells Wildwater et al. (2005) Cell 123: (Brown marks starch in differentiated root cap cells.)
Control Ectopic Rb-related expression Ectopic expression of Rb-related gene results in loss of stem cells Wildwater et al. (2005) Cell 123: (slight overexpression) (strong overexpression)